THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LXIII.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome
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Leading Articles :-
The Language Question
Status of Shanghai
Hongkong Jottings
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Captain's Sudden Death
The Japan-China Treaty .......................tike
Queen's College
The Li Shing College
Shanghai Electric Trams
The Forthcoming Royal Visit
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 27TMи JANUARY, 1906.
PAOR
FAR EASTERN NEWS,
No. 4
The British Minister has stated that England will positively decline to give up Weihaiwei, though she is willing to undertake not to in-
The Chinese New Year festival on the 25thcrease her troops there. 61 inst. passed off without untoward incidents in
Hongkong or Canton.
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Plans are being made to begin the construc- tion of a railway in Fukien province next month, starting from Amoy to Changchou, a distance
of 90 li.
The foreign chief of police at Changsha, 65 Huuan, named Kelly, was shot on Jan. 23rd by two Greeks whom he was endeavouring to arrest. He died next day.
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Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Co., Ld. 67 audit, the Directors of the Hongkong & Supreme Court
Foreign Loans to Chinese
Canton..........
Macao Commercial Shipping
BIRTHS.
We are authorized to say that, subject to 68 Whamp a Dock Co., Ltd., will recommend at 68 the forthcoming meeting a dividend of 12 per cent., equalling 86 per share, and oarry forward about $350,00",
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On January 3rd, at Ichang, to Mr. and Mrs. C.
E. CARLSON, a 200.
On January 16th, at Pootung, the wife of A.
W. MARSHALL, of a son.
On January 17th, at Shanghai, the wife of Capt. C. STEWART, of a daughter:-
MARRIAGE.
On January 15th, at Shangbai, W. MEYRICK HEWLETT, of H.B.M. Legation, Seoul, to EVELEEN
NASH.
DEATHS.
On January 15th, at Shanghai, FANNY WAL-
LACE.
At his residence, Intra Muros, Caine Road, on January 23rd, H. NEY ERNEST ALEXANDER HOILE, son of William Hoile; lute of H. M. S. Warspite, aged 38. For many years in the employ of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co. Deeply regretted.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The French Mail of 22nd December arrived per the s.8. Salsie, on Tuesday, the 23rd instant; and the English Mail of 29th December arrive', per the s.s. Delhi, on Thursday, the 25th inst.
The Takamatsu-maru, a steel steamer now being built in the yard of the Osaka Iron Works at Sakurajima, was launched on January 9th. The steamer is ordered by the Nippon Yusen Kaisha for the service between Osaka and Che- foo, via Chinnampo, Corea. The vessel is 228 feet long, 324 feet wide, and 24 feet deep. She will have a speed of 12 knots, and is qualified to receive the Shipbuilding Encouragement Bounty.
At the Public Works Department on Jan. 22 the letting by public auction of two landed properties took place. The first, a lot of Crown land situated in Austin Road, Kowloon, con- taining 19.032 square feet, and subject to an annual Crown rent of $152, for which the upset price was $5,710, was sold to Mr. F. Blunck for $10,000. The second lot, situated in Bowen Road, containing 5,000 square feet, and carry- ing an annual Crown rent of $34, was knocked down to Mr Yeung Sai Ngau for $1,270, or $20 above upset price.
Pun Kai was sentenced to two months' hard labour for attempting to rob Mrs. Glessmaun, a resident at the Peak on Jan. 22nd while the lady, accompanied by her husband and another lady, was walking along Jervois Street on a shopping expedition; the prisoner attempted to snatch her purse but miscalculated the position and caught her thumb. With con- siderable presence of mind she held on to his hand and turning to her husband told him to arrest the man, which he did, and subsequently handed him over to the custody of the police.
The death, under somewhat mysterious circumstances, of Mr. Chan He-wan, manager of the China Merchants' Steamship Company, was reported to the police on January 23 d. It is stated that on the afternoon in question deceased entered his office at Nos. 15 and 16. Connaught Road very much the worse for drink. At 7 p.m., as one of the clerks was about to get into a ricsha to return home, deceased fell from the verandah of the second floor into the side channel. He was taken upstairs, and Dr. Jeu Hawk immediately sent for, but before that gentleman arrived Chan He-wan had expired. Whether the death was caused by an accident or design is unknown but strange rumours are afloat, and there is an impression amongst a number of Chinese that deceased committed suicide.
The directors of the Osaka Sugar Refining Company have decided to declare the net profit for the half-year just ended at Y102,743, and recommend a dividend at the rate of 18 per cent. per annum, placing Y10,000 to the
reserve.
Mr. Frederick Bower, of Broomfield Hall, Sunningdale, a Liverpool merchant, of the firm of Messrs. Bower, Hanbury, and Co., who left £54,951 net, gave to his housekeeper, Miss Caroline M. Jennings, a life interest in a trust- fund of £10,000 and an immediate bequest of £100, and he left to his coachman, MarkYoung, £100, Mears. Bower, Hanbury, & Co, were the founders of the business now carried on in Shanghai by Messrs. Ward, Probst, & Co., formerly Iveson & Co. They were the owners of a very large number of the native housɔs in the Settlement.
The Sinwênpao states that a certain censor has lately memorialised the Throne, strongly urging the necessity of granting to the country
a constitution, for which the learned classes are
eagerly longing and impatiently awaiting. Further, that as the Travelling High Com- which would take time to accomplish, it would missioners have but just started on their quets,
be well, as a matter of polior, to anticipate the impatience of the people by issuing on Chinese New Year's Day (25th January) an Imperial Decree promising the country a constitution and giving a date when it will be granted.
A very interesting paper was read on Jan. 18th at the Royal Asiatic Society, Shanghai, by Mr. T. W. Kingsmill on "Ancient Tibet and its Frontagers," in which many proofs were brought forward to show that it was a Turanian. tribe of the Kuru and not Tibetans that com. peted so fiercely with the Hans for the posses-. sion of the Empire of Eastern Asia. This paper is a continuation of the work done by Mr. Kingsmill in a former paper on "The Mantse and the Golden Chersoness," and is a valuable contribution to the ethnography of Western China. It will be published in full in the journal of the Society.
Early on the 16th Janury as two trading junks were sailing down the West River past. Wang moon, a band of about sixty pirates, mostly armed with Winchester rifles, cast off from the shore in small boats and bailed the janks to stop. This they decided not to do, and as they continued on their course, the pirates opened fire. Fortunately the junks carried arms, and these were handed to the crews, who responded to the battle challenge. A running fight was maintained until the junks neared the Wangmoon. Custom Station; here the pirates hanled off, and soon disappeared. As far as can be ascertained at present, three of the junks' crews were killed, and several wounded. The pirates' losses are considered more numerous As this fight was proceeding, the ss. Chan Wai appeared on the scene. The captain of that vessel states that it was the excellent fight put up by the crew of one of the traders which repulsed the outlaws. As he was passing he saw a band of about 200 pirates, but considers that the greater number held off on
account of the hot time the attackers received.
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